Robert Lowe, Ph.D.

Degrees Held

Ph.D., Stanford University

MA, Stanford University

Ed.M., Harvard University

AB, University of California-Berkeley

Research Interests

Race, class, and schooling in historical perspective

Recent Publications

(With Harvey Kantor) “Educationalizing the Welfare State and Privatizing Education: The Evolution of Social Policy Since the New Deal,” in Prudence Carter and Kevin Welner, eds., Closing the Opportunity Gap (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 25-39.

(With Harvey Kantor) “The Price of Human Capital: Educational Reform and the Illusion of Equal Opportunity,” in Michael Katz and Mike Rose, eds., Public Education Under Siege (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2013), 75-83. Originally published in Dissent (Summer 2011): 15-20.